He supposedly focused on foreign influence operations.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/7041599

Peter Thiel was reportedly an FBI informant::Far-right blogger Charles Johnson and others allegedly outed venture capitalist and Republican megadonor Peter Thiel as an FBI informant.

  • TWeaK@lemm.eeEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I wasn’t trying to romanticise him, rather I was suggesting that he’d be trying to play the FBI in some way or another.

    • Empricorn@feddit.nl
      3·
      1 year ago

      I get what you’re saying, but he can’t “play” the FBI because he was never an agent. Information flows one way: he informs them, and they pay him. I just want to make that clear for others…